UK widespread mobile Phone tapping

A member of the PSNI, an old friend, told me this week of widespread mobile tapping using the IMEI number. The numbers after the forward slash
corresponds with the times of tapping..can anyone enlighten me further? Most searches explain these additions as checksum numbers..

Is mister policeman telling porkies or has he been misinformed ?

Straw poll

enter

star hash 0 6 hash

your IMEI number should visible then look for the magic number after the forward slash

let me know what your number is after the forward slash.... why?.... I'm nosey

10 of my buddies had 0

2 of my buddies had 1

I had 5

not really a big problem for me I tend to lose phones every few months, I am sure my conversations are as interesting as watching paint dry and may
in fact have been about paint drying.

Re-programming mobile telephone etc.
(1) A person commits an offence if—
(a) he changes a unique device identifier, or
(b) he interferes with the operation of a unique device identifier.
(2) A unique device identifier is an electronic equipment identifier which is unique to a mobile wireless communications device.

Anyway i dont egt what you mean by the / thing, because if you type *#06# it just shows your mobile phones IMEI, i dont see any forward slah on my
IMEI, but i can say with confidence that your phone itself would not be able to track how many times its been tapped.

They may tap it but i doubt they can tap it all, it would not be possible to tap all phone calls and record them for later viewing as that would take
up ALOT of space and the man hours needed to run this kind of operation.

Yes email is possible and most likley happening, easily scan the email as it goes through an ISP for certain keywords and if it is flagged it gets
copied over.

Not only do they tap everything they do it world wide using acres of computer space. This is most likely what your TAX DOLLARS are being spent on.

Believe

Something else that pisses me off is your constitution forbids this to take place in the USA. So in theory anyway if you are in the US they can not do
it to you but they do it to the rest of the world.

Yes i know they tap, but it would and does seem impossible to tap everything, due to th shear amount of data that would create.

and for the records im from the UK, i just can not get my head around the concept that they tap everything because it just seems impossible. I know it
can be done when they want it to be done, but an operation that is 24/7 and logs everything.... I dont know.

this is not a big surprise coming from a country that spies on its residents with closed circuit cameras. i like to think of the uk as the worlds
testing grounds for oppressive technology. if it works out in the uk they usually end up shipping it over here to america.

Nope I really don't use the phone at all. I don't like having a mobile (never have) because if Im not at home I dont care whether people can get
hold of me or not, but my grandmother insisted I got one so she could call me (I normally only communicate via the net - email / skype / IM etc).

Yes i already know about this place, but how on earth could that hose communications for the whole of europe, that is just off the scale, surely if
this was happening there would be a couple of hundred of these things scattered around europe, not just one that does it all because it would be
overloaded, just think how many emails, text and phone calls are done in 1 minute in europe, and your saying it all goes here first.

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